Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 50
Notwithstanding these brave and boastful words, he was in reality very much afraid, having heard of Rasalu's renown.
Who acts: king · What happens: notwithstand, be, have, hear · To what, where: brave words
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 afraid | advcl |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 boastful | cc |
| 5 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | conj |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Notwithstanding | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Notwithstanding | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 reality | case |
| 11 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 afraid | advmod |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 having | punct |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 afraid | advcl |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 having | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 renown | case |
| 19 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 renown | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Rasalu | case |
| 21 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notwithstand | gerund | king not said here | this brave words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | king | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | participle | king not said here | of Rasalu's renown | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of renown=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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